New York Minute (song)

"New York Minute" is a song written by Don Henley, Danny Kortchmar, and Jai Winding. Henley originally recorded it for his 1989 album The End of the Innocence. The single was a #5 hit on the U.S. Adult Contemporary chart the following year, although it reached only #48 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The song was covered by the Eagles on the Hell Freezes Over album and DVD, as well as Herbie Hancock on his 1995 album The New Standard. In 1998, the Danish singer Sanne Salomonsen covered the song on an album of the same name, together with Chris Minh Doky.

It is featured in The West Wing episode "Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail," which was named for a line from the song. It is also featured in the Friends episode "The One with Two Parts, Part Two".

The song has close association to the 9/11 tragedy, with heavy airplay by stations at the time.

The song has also been sampled by New York rapper French Montana. Nicki Minaj has also sampled the song in "NY Minute".


Don Henley
Studio albums
  • I Can't Stand Still
  • Building the Perfect Beast
  • The End of the Innocence
  • Inside Job
Compilation albums
  • Actual Miles: Henley's Greatest Hits
  • The Very Best of Don Henley
Singles
  • "Leather and Lace"
  • "Johnny Can't Read"
  • "Dirty Laundry"
  • "The Boys of Summer"
  • "All She Wants to Do Is Dance"
  • "Not Enough Love in the World"
  • "Sunset Grill"
  • "The End of the Innocence"
  • "New York Minute"
  • "The Last Worthless Evening"
  • "The Heart of the Matter"
  • "The Garden of Allah"
  • "Everybody Knows"
See also
  • Discography
  • Eagles


Famous quotes containing the words york and/or minute:

    “I know of no one so patient and determined to have the good of you. It is almost friendship, such plain and human dealing.... He has naturalized and humanized New York for me.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)